Careful Words

untimely (adv.)

untimely (adj.)

Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung,

Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford.

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost

That nipt my flower sae early.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): Highland Mary.

An untimely grave.

Thomas Carew (1589-1639): On the Duke of Buckingham.

Untimely grave.

Tate And Brady: Psalm vii.

With spots quadrangular of diamond form,

Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,

And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 217.